Scion
Scion is dedicated to building the international competitiveness of the New Zealand forest industry and building a stronger bio-based economy. Although the Centre's scope does not include forestry, Scion includes researchers with skills relevant to the Centre in the area of soil carbon that are also applicable to agricultural land.
Research Leader - Dr Tanira Kingi
20/11/19
Dr Tanira Kingi leads the NZAGRC’s Māori-focussed Research Programme along with Phil Journeaux, which aims to assist the Māori pastoral sector improve its collective capacity to increase resource efficiency and farm productivity while...
Information Brochure: Mitigation and cost of on-farm Greenhouse Gas Emission
16/04/19
This information brochure reports on the modelling work done over four years on a range of dairy, sheep and beef farms, as part of a number of projects, including for the NZAGRC. It also discusses forestry as a carbon sink and possible...
Country Calendar: From the Ashes
04/12/18
Onuku Maori Lands Trust, winners of the 2018 Ahuwhenua Trophy for Maori Excellence in Farming, featured on Country Calendar. Onuku is part of our Māori-focussed research programme. Watch (external link)
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) on Māori-owned Farms
21/05/18
Scion, in partnership with AgFirst, are undertaking a research programme funded by the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) looking at GHG mitigation options for Māori-owned pastoral farms. The research programme is...
Report: Mitigating greenhouse gases on Māori farms 2014-2017
28/02/18
This report covers a project to assist the Māori pastoral sector to improve its collective capacity to increase resource efficiency, farm productivity, while reducing GHG emissions. The project was based around the establishment of a network of...
Collective land tenure systems and greenhouse gas mitigation among Māori farmers in Aotearoa
01/07/16
West, G., Journeaux, P., Wakelin, S., & Kingi, T. (2016). Collective land tenure systems and greenhouse gas mitigation among Maori farmers in Aotearoa, New Zealand Pan Pacific Indigenous Resource Management: Australian National University Press.
Report: Monitoring Greenhouse Gas Emissions
15/01/16
Progress over the first year from the Low emissions farm systems for the Maori sector project includes: Development of a typology of Maori farming The collection of farm and GHG emission profiles on 29 Maori farms from around the country,...
